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State of Play

A Mid-Week Dead Drop Break

In the world of national security, it can't all be so serious, so here's a preview of what's waiting for you in this week's Dead Drop:GAME OF THROWS: [...] More

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Why Intelligence Matters

Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell is debuting season two of his popular podcast ‘Intelligence Matters’ in partnership with CBS News this [...] More

Book Review: U.S. Spies Triumph in Tragedy against Hitler

Wartime has been a force multiplier for espionage ever since the Revolutionary War, when General George Washington was the founding father of the art [...] More

Taking a Lesson from Churchill for Today

The Cipher Brief's State of Play series encompasses reviews of the books, movies and TV shows that help shape our understanding of the national [...] More

Dunkirk: The Larger-than-Life Story on a Larger-than-Life Screen

If you don’t know what a Stukka Dive Bomber sounds like, you will never forget its eerie, piercing wail after watching Dunkirk. It is sound, not gory [...] More

Is the U.S. Getting Outmaneuvered at Sea?

Retired Admiral James Stavridis believes the Trump Administration fails to recognize the importance of our oceans. In his new book Sea Power: The [...] More

China: The Greatest Disruptive Force Today

Graham Allison's ominously titled Destined for War fulfills an implied promise made by his seminal Atlantic magazine article 18 months ago. That [...] More

State of Play Review: Alex Berenson’s The Prisoner

In Alex Berenson’s new thriller, The Prisoner, his hero John Wells goes undercover in a European prison to smoke out a CIA mole who is providing [...] More

Book Review: "Enhanced Interrogation"

Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America is a firsthand account of the CIA’s [...] More

The Interrogation of Saddam: An Opportunity of a Lifetime

This week, The Cipher Brief’s Executive Producer and Reporter Leone Lakhani speaks to John Nixon, author of “Debriefing The President: The [...] More

The Interrogation of Saddam and Dispelling Myths

This week The Cipher Brief’s Executive Producer and Reporter Leone Lakhani speaks to John Nixon, author of “Debriefing The President: The [...] More

The Man Behind "Rise of the Machines"

"Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History" (2016) tells the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine devised by mathematician [...] More

"The End of the Asian Century": Exploring Asia’s Future

Conventional wisdom suggests Asia’s increasing wealthy and educated population will make it the most dynamic region of the world and that it will [...] More